Pearl Harbor Video Scam Laid Bare
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The title is the same, "Pearl Harbor," and the first five minutes show the opening scenes from the new WWII epic movie, but thereafter the video compact disc version selling in Malaysia is pure porn.
Malaysian authorities seized 39 copies of the pornographic version of the war movie in Butterworth, in northern Penang state, newspapers reported on Friday.
"The first five minutes are the original version of the movie while the rest is porn," The Star daily quoted Rodzi Husain, a home (interior) ministry official, as saying.
There is little chance of getting the two versions mixed up -- the original cover has a woman ducking under a washing line as Japanese fighters fly low overhead.
"The cover of the VCD showed a woman in an army uniform with her top exposed," Rodzi said.
Quick checks with sidestreet VCD peddlers in Kuala Lumpur, unearthed another pornographic rip-off of a recent Hollywood hit -- "The Mummy Returns."
Malaysia is one of the world's biggest video piracy markets, with VCDs of top movies selling for as little as $1.60.
In May, two men were nabbed for using a video camera to make an illegal copy of the real "Pearl Harbor" while it was playing at a cinema.
Shows a man waiting in line to get the VCD.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The title is the same, "Pearl Harbor," and the first five minutes show the opening scenes from the new WWII epic movie, but thereafter the video compact disc version selling in Malaysia is pure porn.
Malaysian authorities seized 39 copies of the pornographic version of the war movie in Butterworth, in northern Penang state, newspapers reported on Friday.
"The first five minutes are the original version of the movie while the rest is porn," The Star daily quoted Rodzi Husain, a home (interior) ministry official, as saying.
There is little chance of getting the two versions mixed up -- the original cover has a woman ducking under a washing line as Japanese fighters fly low overhead.
"The cover of the VCD showed a woman in an army uniform with her top exposed," Rodzi said.
Quick checks with sidestreet VCD peddlers in Kuala Lumpur, unearthed another pornographic rip-off of a recent Hollywood hit -- "The Mummy Returns."
Malaysia is one of the world's biggest video piracy markets, with VCDs of top movies selling for as little as $1.60.
In May, two men were nabbed for using a video camera to make an illegal copy of the real "Pearl Harbor" while it was playing at a cinema.
Shows a man waiting in line to get the VCD.
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